[FairfieldLife] What do the Pandits get paid compared to the minimum wage in India?
According to wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country#Countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country#Countries the pandits are getting paid about 4-6x the minimum wage for someone living in India: $689/year. I figure that because the minimum wage figure on wikipedia includes requirements for room and board, which are free for the Pandits while they are staying in the USA. They get paid $6.60/day + room and board, which is nearly 2x the minimum wage of 118 rupees ($2.18) per day in Bihar to 185 rupees ($3.40) per day in Haryana (with local cost of living allowance included). Assume that room and board is 1/2 your income, and the Pandit's income works out to 6x the minimum wage in Bihar and 4x the minimum wage in Haryana. Not the highest wage, but by no means exploitation, either.
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Don't you *ever* get tired of being an apologist for the TM movement, Lawson? Your figures below are calculated on the basis of them being paid $200 per month. They aren't. They are paid $50 a month. The other $150 goes to their parents, who *sold them into this program in the first place*, and ONLY IF they complete their three-year contract. The pandits never see a penny of that $150. So your apologetics below are all based on a LIE. It's a GOOD DEAL for the parents to sell their children into this kind of slavery. The average monthly income in India is $94. They get $150, plus one less mouth to feed. Meanwhile the TMO charges thousands to tens of thousands of dollars for each of the yagyas performed by these indentured servants, and pays them (using your calculations below, only with the correct base figure) $1.66 per day, not $6.60. Shame on you for helping to perpetuate this scam, Lawson, and for supporting what can only be described as a modern form of slavery. From: lengli...@cox.net lengli...@cox.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 9:40 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] What do the Pandits get paid compared to the minimum wage in India? According to wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country#Countries the pandits are getting paid about 4-6x the minimum wage for someone living in India: $689/year. I figure that because the minimum wage figure on wikipedia includes requirements for room and board, which are free for the Pandits while they are staying in the USA. They get paid $6.60/day + room and board, which is nearly 2x the minimum wage of 118 rupees ($2.18) per day in Bihar to 185 rupees ($3.40) per day in Haryana (with local cost of living allowance included). Assume that room and board is 1/2 your income, and the Pandit's income works out to 6x the minimum wage in Bihar and 4x the minimum wage in Haryana. Not the highest wage, but by no means exploitation, either.
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Agreed and I would point out two other things - One, there was someone a few weeks ago who made a post saying they had worked with the pundits in Vlodrop and knew very well their problems When I asked what those problems were, the person replied that the TMO NEVER kept its promises to the pundits, specifically about money - the one example he gave was one who had family in India who needed the money who complained so much they finally paid him - in Raams. Two - the rationale for the TMO asking for major donations for the pundits to do a national yagya for Great Britain so they could prevent any further natural disasters. Since the pundits already live and work in TMO facilities where they have everything they need, why would they need to collect up $100,000.00 to be able to do the yagya? The pundits don't get any of that money, they are already onsite, doing yagya - why would the TMO refrain from doing what was needful for England till they had that much money in hand? If you believe that yagya can actually have the effect intended, it surely seems like extortion at best. And people wonder why I take issue with the TM Movement? On Thu, 3/20/14, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] What do the Pandits get paid compared to the minimum wage in India? To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, March 20, 2014, 8:59 AM Don't you *ever* get tired of being an apologist for the TM movement, Lawson? Your figures below are calculated on the basis of them being paid $200 per month. They aren't. They are paid $50 a month. The other $150 goes to their parents, who *sold them into this program in the first place*, and ONLY IF they complete their three-year contract. The pandits never see a penny of that $150. So your apologetics below are all based on a LIE. It's a GOOD DEAL for the parents to sell their children into this kind of slavery. The average monthly income in India is $94. They get $150, plus one less mouth to feed. Meanwhile the TMO charges thousands to tens of thousands of dollars for each of the yagyas performed by these indentured servants, and pays them (using your calculations below, only with the correct base figure) $1.66 per day, not $6.60. Shame on you for helping to perpetuate this scam, Lawson, and for supporting what can only be described as a modern form of slavery. From: lengli...@cox.net lengli...@cox.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 9:40 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] What do the Pandits get paid compared to the minimum wage in India? According to wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country#Countries the pandits are getting paid about 4-6x the minimum wage for someone living in India: $689/year. I figure that because the minimum wage figure on wikipedia includes requirements for room and board, which are free for the Pandits while they are staying in the USA. They get paid $6.60/day + room and board, which is nearly 2x the minimum wage of 118 rupees ($2.18) per day in Bihar to 185 rupees ($3.40) per day in Haryana (with local cost of living allowance included). Assume that room and board is 1/2 your income, and the Pandit's income works out to 6x the minimum wage in Bihar and 4x the minimum wage in Haryana. Not the highest wage, but by no means exploitation, either.
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Of course it isn't a LIE. Put on your Big Boy pants, Barry, and stop acting like a three-year-old having a tantrum. The pandits are paid $200/month, $150 of which is sent to their family in India. The family wouldn't be getting any money if the pandits weren't earning it. (DUH) Lawson's calculations are entirely legitimate. Don't you *ever* get tired of being an apologist for the TM movement, Lawson? Your figures below are calculated on the basis of them being paid $200 per month. They aren't. They are paid $50 a month. The other $150 goes to their parents, who *sold them into this program in the first place*, and ONLY IF they complete their three-year contract. The pandits never see a penny of that $150. So your apologetics below are all based on a LIE.
Re: [FairfieldLife] What do the Pandits get paid compared to the minimum wage in India?
On 3/20/2014 6:22 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: And people wonder why I take issue with the TM Movement? Apparently your life is so empty and your mind is so small that you resort to bullshit. Go figure. I've been there, done that. I wrote a whole story in my book about my feelings for the anti-cultists of the world and their mindset. (It's at http://ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rtm51.html for anyone who is interested.) In that story, I hope I expressed the level of my disdain for those whose life is so empty and whose minds are so small that they have to resort to such measures, and in the last line of the story I invoke an old and power- ful mantra. To forestall any need to deal with your adolescent bullshit in the future, I invoke it here against you, in its acronym form so as not to offend those with gentle sensibilities: FEITCTAJ- Uncle Tantra
